Ring in the new year


Happy New Year!

Kjirsti and I had a great time in Washington with her family.  I love all of our wonderful nieces and nephews.  They have such spirit!

Kjirsti got me perhaps the coolest gift I’ve ever gotten.  It’s called an arduino, and it has to be the geekiest thing I’ve ever owned.  But it sure is cool.  I made a timer for our camera, and put together a time lapse video of our front yard:

It is great to be back to Cleveland. Washington was so cold!

I thought I might share a few of my resolutions here, perhaps to help motivate myself to actually accomplish them!

I have a brainstorming list a mile long. However, the two which particularly stand out are these:
      8 hours of sleep a night
      Co-publish 10 papers

The first is because I’m getting grey hairs!  And because it might actually be one of the hardest things that I struggle with.  Waking up daily at 5:45 means I have to go to sleep at 9:45pm.  However, that 10pm to 12pm always seems to be the most fun part of my day, when I catch up on books, movies, shows, toys.  Hopefully I’ll be able to work those into my day.

My second goal was inspired by Mary’s brother Nathan.  I guess he became known in his graduate school for publishing a ton of papers.  He did something like 10 papers in a year.  I’m hoping that a shift in attitude could help me get some papers out.  That way, I could really get my PhD next year.

Perhaps that will be it for my goals this year.  I think they are plenty ambitious.

What are your goals? I’d love to hear.  I figure you have all of January to write them.  That way you start the year procrastinating 🙂


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